Relay Cropping Adds $300+
Our relay system that is around $300+ more profitable per acre than our normal soybean production acres..but it took a decade to “dial in” Here a video from this year vs 2016, 2020, and 2022 Farmonous balance. Too wet or too dry is always the reality. How can we design our system to reduce risk? I get questions a lot and they’re usually centered around what we normally do for either wheat production or soybean production. Why do I do things different? Why do we follow corn? Weed control, N scavenging, aggressive nutrient cycling… we’ve found we can “glue” the stalks and wring out nutrients + speed our residue breakdown with little if any tillage. Mix N with chemistry and spray Why the thin planting of wheat? Wheat is competitive… if you’re too aggressive with it your bean yields will suffer, and it’s worth twice per bushel. Time is your friend to economics. If we plant the wheat in late September, we can plant it deep… letting the planter cut through to corn residue and get great establishment Adding a little N with that heat and time allows each wheat plant to get big and reproduce This system is all about exponentials. Like a sow having 15 babies in 3 months 3 weeks and 3 days… facilitating multiple entity exponentials is the ag cheat code. Expression + Empathy = exponentials Why do we make 2 sets of tram lines? To make it fast and easy Why do we plant such crazy bean rows? Triple 7” beans … and quintuplets in the inner tram reallocates all the seed into a 33% indexed space IN THE RELEVANT space. Letting the wheat do its thing and planting 2-3x the beans in that relevant space to speed canopy KNOWING the wheat will die… well cut it down to 6-8” tall straw and spread the 80:1 C over the legume beans. Side light is the gasoline of this engine along with Oxygen below the soil surface and CO2 above Water is the physical math equation You have to have it all to make it work… you have to do the actuarial science yourself for your location and soils.

Potash Prices Remain Stable Amid Fertilizer Market Shifts
CHARTS OF THE DAY: Not every fertiliser price is going up. Back in 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine, nitrogen fertilisers (urea and ammonia) rose shaprly. AT THE SAME TIME, potash fertiliser (potassium chloride) also surged. This time, potash fertilisers are little changed....
Relay Wheat Boosts Soybean Yields and Soil Health
In 2018 I realized that I can grow higher yielding soybeans with wheat than without and just soybeans. I proved it to myself for 3 years straight growing 17 varieties of soybeans monocrop vs relay. While most...

Winter Wheat Condition Hits Decade Low at 35%
🇺🇸Only 35% of U.S. winter wheat is in good or excellent condition, below all trade estimates and down notably from late Nov. This is the week's fourth lowest rating of the last decade. Corn, cotton and spring wheat planting have just...
Soybean Inspections to China Surge, Other Grains Flat
Export inspections destined for China in the week ending April 2 (mln bu): #corn 0.0, grain sorghum 2.3, #soybeans 18.3, #wheat 0.0 #oatt

Crop Protection Market Stabilizes, Modest Growth Expected 2026
FY 2025 crop protection and seed results have all been reported, across @Bayer, @BASF, @corteva, FMC, @Syngenta, @UPLLtd, and @NufarmSeedsNA. Several players were down, however, the crop protection market was viewed as more stable (before recent geopolitical events, anyways). Channel inventories...
Stockcropper Drive System Lets You Move Any Crop
Anything you want to move will be possible with the @stockcropper drive system… I can’t wait to get mine to move things between alley crop corn… or perennial food crops, etc https://t.co/zjfxJiRD2g
Relay Wheat Boosts Profit, Cuts Costs, Enhances Soil
Made some infographics tonight to explain our relay wheat system. The main idea is we can grow 70 bushel wheat and 70 bushel soybeans and make about $250 more revenue per acre than pushing wheat yields up over 100 bu/ac and...

Wheat Doubles as Living Cover, Boosting Soybean Yields
Relay wheat growing to 12” tall and closing the 15” twin rows. Looking like planting will be possible later this week. Wheat will act as living pattern tile and weed control for soybeans…. Naturally maturing w/o herbicides unlike traditional cover crops providing...

War‑Driven Energy Costs Revive Food
🇺🇸The food-vs-fuel debate is back amid the war-driven surge in energy costs, particularly for corn-based ethanol. Yes, 2026 U.S. corn plantings will drop from 2025, largely due to rotations. But 2026 could see the 4th largest corn area since WWII and...

US Soy Exports to China Slightly Up, Q1 Plummets
🇺🇸USA exported 2.43 million metric tons (89 mbu) of soybeans to China in February, slightly above the month's five-year average. Q2 (Dec-Feb) 2025/26 U.S. bean shipments to China edged the year-ago Q2 volume by about one cargo, but Q1 2025/26 was...

Vegetative Cuttings Can Carry Hidden Genetic Mutations
This week's Talking Biotech Podcast 490 looks at the question of mutations passing through vegetative plant materials. Are your cuttings and scions really genetically uniform? Not so fast! With Dr. Danelle Seymour from @UCRiverside. https://t.co/Z6HDLzurxE https://t.co/YBKd4HoXmY
USDA to Publish First 2026‑27 WASDE Balance Sheets May 12
USDA will release its first WASDE balance sheets for the 2026-27 marketing year May 12. It typically uses trend yields from its February Outlook Forum, and Planted Acres from its March planting intentions survey. As such, today's numbers should help...